Jonathan L. Owen

Avant-Garde to New Wave

Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780857459015
• ISBN-10: 0857459015
• Artikelnr.: 37261699

Autorenporträt

Jonathan L. Owen is a Teaching Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. He completed his Ph.D. on Czech cinema at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the European cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and the Czech twentieth-century avant-garde.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Inspirations, Opportunities: Cultural and Historical Contexts
Chapter 2. Pavel Jurácek's Josef Kilián (1963) and A Case for the Young
Hangman (1969): From the Surreal Object to the Absurd Signifier
Chapter 3. Jirí Menzel's Closely Observed Trains (1966): Hrabal and the
Heterogeneous
Chapter 4. Spoiled Aesthetics: Realism and Anti-Humanism in Vera
Chytilová'sDaisies (1966)
Chapter 5. Flights From History: Otherness, Politics and Folk Avant-Gardism
in Juraj Jakubisko's The Deserter and the Nomads (1968) and Birds, Orphans
and Fools (1969)
Chapter 6. Back to Utopia: Returns of the Repressed in Jaromil JireS's
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Chapter 7. Jan svankmajer: Contemporary Czech Surrealism and the Renewal of
Language
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index